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SE Radio 552: Matt Frisbie on Browser Extensions

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Security Best Practices for Extensions

Security is in a really interesting area of extensions because you have to be cognizant of what they have access to as well as what the web page itself has access to. The amount of information that a properly permissioned extension has access to is quite profound. If it can sniff everything you're doing, that's a really big attack vector. So really being aware of like what you're storing and where you're putting it are probably the biggest security concern.

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